Almost four million people in Harbin in northeastern China are expected to be without running water until late Saturday after a chemical plant explosion on Nov. 13 contaminated the upper reaches of the nearby Songhua River with toxic benzene.

• 在中国东北部的城市哈尔滨，大约四百万人周六以前没有活水，因为11月13日上游的一个化工厂发生爆炸，河水遭到了苯污染。